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It seems every company these days is “going green." Looking at the store shelf, it’s increasingly difficult to separate the truly good...

It seems every company these days is “going green." Looking at the store shelf, it’s increasingly difficult to separate the truly good businesses from those with just good marketing. Who do you trust?

That's why B Lab, a nonprofit, has created the ultimate list of “green" businesses to help. The B Corp Best for the Environment List recognizes those companies creating the most positive environmental impact, as determined by the B Impact Report, a comprehensive and transparent assessment used by more than 8,000 businesses to measure their impact on their workers, community, and the environment.

Some winners you may know (Method, Patagonia, New Belgium Brewer, and Seventh Generation), others may be new (GoLite, Clean Currents, Preserve, and Ambiente), but each of these companies is using business to create a better world.

The Best for the Environment honorees aren't just creating catchy ads—they are actually measuring and improving their performance. For these companies, creating a healthier planet is just business as usual, with practices ranging from recycling programs to regular energy audits to the use of LEED facilities.

Check out the full list below, and go here to see our Best for the World honorees.

\nNamasté Solar - Namasté Solar is an employee-owned cooperative which provides PV design, engineering, installation, maintenance, and consulting services to residential, commercial, builder, non-profit, and government customers throughout the U.S.

\nPatagonia, Inc. - Patagonia clothing company is a designer of outdoor clothing and gear with the mission to build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm and use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis.

\nSeventh Generation - Seventh Generation is a leading brand of household and personal care products that help protect human health and the environment.

\nSouthern Energy Management - Southern Energy Management is a North Carolina-based sustainable energy company offering energy efficiency, green building and turn-key solar services for homeowners, builders, companies, government and military clients across the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic.

\nSungevity - Sungevity is a leading web-based sales company making it easy and affordable for homeowners to go solar.

\nVidrios Marte - Vidrios Marte is the largest insulated glass manufacturer in Mexico.

\nBuilding Insights - Building Insights is the start-up software group within Green Building Services Inc. (GBS) - a leader in the global green building movement. Building Insights allows building owners to manage green practices, saving significant time and money.

\nGreenCitizen, Inc. - GreenCitizen help consumers and businesses repair, reuse, and recycle their electronics and computers responsibly and help stop global e-waste dumping.

\nPreserve - Preserve makes stylish, high performance, eco-friendly products for the home, including a full line of personal care, kitchen, tableware and food storage products, using 100% recycled plastics that are BPA free and Made in USA.

\nSMART Watering Systems Inc. - SMART Watering Systems is a water efficiency consulting firm and a "hands on" irrigation water management company that works with municipalities, parks departments, architects and property managers to reduce potable water use on landscapes.

\nWorld Centric - World Centric provides high quality, compostable food service disposables and food packaging products for use in schools, corporate cafeterias, restaurants, hospitals and parties.

Micro-Enterprises:

\nAcción Verde - Accion Verde is a Colombian for profit enterprise that plants trees, as a third party Social Responsibility resource, in strategic places of Colombia to prevent natural disasters, while mitigating climate change.

\nAlterrus Systems Inc. - Alterrus Systems Inc. is the recognized world leader in the development, manufacturing and integration of proprietary vertical farming systems for global markets.

\nAtayne, LLC - Atayne makes high performing outdoor and athletic apparel that is good for people and the environment.

\nCultivating Capital - Cultivating Capital is a business consulting firm that helps entrepreneurs and small business owners, especially women business owners, do the two things that all businesses have to do to be successful in the 21st century: go green and market their businesses online.

\nEco-Bags - Eco-Bags is the original reusable bag company, founded in 1989, producing durable, reusable bags for retail and promotions.

\nEcotrust Forest Management - Ecotrust Forest Management is a forestland investment management and advisory services company that generates long term value for both investors and society by facilitating positive environmental outcomes and supporting job creation in rural communities.

\nEpisencial - Episencial is a 3-step skincare system for babies and kids to support skin immunity, helping to strengthen skin while protecting children from environmental hazards like chlorinated air pollution and UVA.

\nPalmetto - Palmetto offers a fully integrated service to lead organizations towards cost-effective and sustainable solutions. Through customized planning and efforts to deliver tangible investment opportunities, they have delivered over $10 billion towards a clean energy future.

\nREfficient Inc. - REfficient is an online marketplace enabling service providers to go shopping in other companies’ surplus inventory for reliable telecom and audiovisual equipment at significant discounts.

\nRoute to Green SPA - Route to Green imports and distributes natural products throughout Chile and South America.

\nThe Paradigm Project - The Paradigm Project partners with well-established global relief and development organizations to help them identify, fund and develop scalable projects that meet immediate development needs while creating a foundation for long-term community benefit.

\nTheGreenOffice.com - TheGreenOffice.com is a one-stop online retailer featuring over 38,000 green and conventional office products and a comprehensive range of sustainability services designed to make office greening easy and cost effective.

\nWater Power Group LP - Water Power Group develops small run-of-river hydropower projects in partnership with local & Aboriginal communities.

\nZero to Go - Zero to Go is a sustainable reverse-logistics services, emphasizing the needs of the immediate community by making sure materials stay local and out of the waste stream.